The Staple Singers have been called “God’s greatest hit-makers.” Their album “The 25th Day of December” is what we’ll be singing along to at my house this Christmas. Listen to the whole thing after the jump:

Nina Simone, “the high priestess of soul,” was born in 1933, the sixth child of a preacher. She wanted to be a concert pianist, but was denied entry into a music school in Philadelphia because she was black. More after the jump:

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